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[themeletor]

My drive-by reaction to Persuasion:

Sam West's Mr Elliot is too loveable. Not scammy enough, really.
Also, he does this thing. This eye thing. This... intense thing. It's just ... a thing. And it makes me afraid my mini tv is going to combust. Wtf, he makes Jane Austen dialogue rawr. How does that happen?

Also wtf, she's (Anne) hanging out on his (Wentworth) boat? Since when? Did I miss this in my two readings? Makes no sense.
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Now, I write. Austen-y boat stuff. Mwahah.

Then I read, because I'm on page, like, three-oh-something and freaking out. Why must life continually interrupt my escapist bliss?

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[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

Find the BBC version of "Pride and Prejudice". Not the A&E multi-disc set, the 2-VHS BBC version with David Rintoul as Darcy. (IMDB link here)

It's a very good adaptation of what is arguably Austen's best (and definitely her best-loved) novel.

Watch it. If you don't want more after the second tape ends, I'll be very much surprised.

PS-- Mr Rintoul also played Clive, the ship's doctor, in the Hornblower episodes Mutiny and Retribution.